Tristram cyborg and Toby toolmaker: body, tools, and hobbyhorse in Tristram Shandy.(Critical essay) From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Mottolese, William C. | COPYRIGHT 2007 Rice University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Despite the omnipresence of the human body in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the body and mind in Laurence Sterne's strange novel function in a state of discontinuity, dissonance, and miscommunication. In no character is this discontinuity more pronounced than in the sickly but cerebral Tristram himself. If, according to Tristram, the ordinary human mind, like a jerkin's lining, is "rumpled" when the jerkin of the body that encases it is "rumpled," then the ex...

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